Small And Hungry It’s a common phenomenon for small companies with zero market share to take a ton of risk. Since they don’t have anything to lose, and everything to gain, this makes perfect sense. Then as they slowly claw some market share and customers away from other more established, existing companies, they shift slightly. […]
Collateral Attraction
Bar Investigation A few years ago I moved to a new city. Whenever I go to a new city, one of the things I like to do is check out the local night spots. Not to try and meet anybody, I find that these places are good places to people watch. To kind of feel […]
Corn Chips and Psychic Ladies
Supermarket Tourist The other day I was out driving around and I saw a supermarket I hadn’t been into before. I always like to check out new places just to see what they’re like, even though most of the time they have the same stuff. After wandering around and picking up some things, I […]
Trailing Memory Average
Palm Reader There’s this very powerful palm reader that works out of a very nondescript shop. In fact, unless you know she’s a palm reader you won’t tell, you won’t be able to tell by the outside of the shop. Even if you walk inside the shop it’s not altogether clear exactly what this woman […]
Sex Beliefs and Social Status
Young Anthropologist There was this young female anthropologist during Victorian England that went on an expedition by herself to some island in the South Seas to study the people that lived in the South Seas. The people that lived in the South Seas had dealt with British people before and they could sort of […]
Gossip, Rumors And Deadly Instincts
Find The Leaker There is a very common trope found in spy movies if you’re in charge of an organization and you suspect that somebody in your organization is leaking information there’s an easy way to find who the leak is. The first thing you do is you need to come up with several […]
Slippery Slopes of Terror
Drug Dealers If you are a drug dealer it would be fairly easy to continuously get new customers. The first thing you would do is give somebody free samples. The free samples would be something that makes him feel very good. Anything that makes a human feel very good is something that human will […]
Thousand Virgin Sacrifice
Seduction Coaches There’s this group of three females that teaches very effective three day seduction seminar. It has a 90% success rate. It’s not publicly advertised you have to be introduced by a graduate of the seminar to the teachers. You have to be put on a waiting list. While you’re on this waiting […]
Brainless Society
Drug Ads on TV It’s a widely accepted fact that 70% of all television advertisements are paid for by the pharmaceutical companies but what’s unclear is why these ads are so uninteresting. If you watch ads from other consumer products like fast food or shoes or Doritos or Snickers, these ads will be very […]
Post Hypnotic Destruction
Unconscious Competence No matter what you are learning, whether it be a skill or a subject or a piece of information, if you practice this enough it will get down to the level of unconscious competence. Sometimes we say learn something by heart. Sometimes we say learn something until it is second nature, but […]
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